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The Supreme Court Justice minifigures

These Lego female Supreme Court justices are just the latest project from artist Maia Weinstock

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For years, the Lego world has been mostly’s a boy’s world, even if girls played with them as much or more than their boy classmates. That’s slowly started to change, but artist Maia Weinstock wanted to give the change a little kick.

LEGO’s new line of female scientists features an astronomer and a paleontologist

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